Movie mistakes: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

[oogabooga]

The scarecrow was on the other side of the road in the other feild. look at the difference of the crops in the “empty feild” and the feild with the scarecrow in it

[jzuelch]

The scarecrow does not appear out of nowhere. Dorothy is approaching a multiple point intersection of the yellow brick road and you are mistaking two different points as one point. In later parts of your video you can see both intersections, 1 with the fence assembled correctly, the other with the fence cross pieces fallen.

[brianthomas]

At the end of the movie when the Wizard is in the baloon to take Dorothy home, you can clearly see the Tin man undo the rope holding the baloon in place.

[matthewmackey]

Also the trap door scene is understandable. That scene we see happened right before they went to lunch. They broke for lunch and went back to do it again and this time Margaret Hamilton ended up getting burned very badly cause that same trap door got stuck and the fire came up and caused her to get very badly burned. And she was out for weeks because of it. When she returned she said No more fire so they had no choice but to go with that scene we see today. I dont blame her one bit.

[miroslavtomic]

Prof. Marvel not returning the photo to Dorothy is not a movie mistake even by far. He simply didn't have time to give it back as Dorothy simply ran out before he could do it.

[davidpar]

The extinguishing candles would have happened out of necessity, for the safety of the scene. I always noticed that, too

[HellhammerSS]

Came back to comment on this video from watching hours earlier, the song is still in my fucking head....

[miroslavtomic]

Just because something doesn't make sense in our world, does not automatically qualify it to be a movie mistake. Case in point: the candle going out in chandalier. Oz is magical place and therefore it could be possible that candles can switch on and off at their own will.

[miroslavtomic]

Bucket of water was a leftover from a deleted subplot involving Witch's cook who knew about Witch's weakness and was planting backets of water all around the castle to try to get rid of her. While this subplot was scrapped, the bucket remained. In the book, Dorothy kills her by pushing Witch's huge couldron full of magic stuff onto her.

[matthewmackey]

As far as the witch having water in her castle we have to remember that this is also Dorothy's dream. It happened not long after she sang Over The Rainbow Where troubles melt like lemon drops. That was the movie. The book on the other hand Dorothy did not dream it and it seems like someone else knew about her weakness and was going to take her out. Then there is the whole this is fantasy and if we are going to pick on this then we might as well be picky about every story ever written. Its a great movie with a very powerful message that I wish I had learned before I left home.

[kgreene]

She threw the apple behind the tin man ...

[miroslavtomic]

Witches broom thing might be a mistake, but it doesn't have to be. To lower the broom it takes literally less than a second, so she had enough time to lower it down. Plus, it is not that much lower.

[nokiajedobra]

Actually that tin man, who fell in the forest wasn’t Jack Haley, the tin man was a stunt person.

[miroslavtomic]

In the shot where you see Jack Haley's white shirt, you can also tell that he is wearing regular silver pants. Totally obvious they are not made out of any metal.

[jabbaa]

You have made mistakes too! Tin can rust: Tinplate can rust in humid environments because the water molecules in the air can penetrate the iron material and cause an oxidation reaction

[chuco]

The short of the tin mans fall looked painful.

[miroslavtomic]

The Tin Man rusting is never explained in the movie, but there is perfectly good explanation found in the book. Tin Man was the name that Dorothy and Scarecrow gave him when they met him, but it was never and nowhere in the book or the movie confirmed that he was actually made out of tin. Since he can rust, he obviously is not made out of tin, but of some other metal. However, the name they gave him simply stayed.

[ricardodavila]

Wow, the tin man double fell hard from way up there

[kenziehansen]

Some of this is just pre-cgi movie magic. Some stuff could be sloppy. Like her hair changing and the clock being earlier later in the movie and the black shoes instead of red. Those things would be the director and crew fault. The actors and actresses did phenomenal for the age this was made and the things they had to subject themselves to for the role.

[steamtechnicolor]

Wow! your eyes are very fast than eagle.